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Unless I don't know how to use the combo FF Multi-account Containers + Temporary Containers, or I'm using the wrong add-ons, setup for my basic use case is a bit of a pain. Help!

See original GitHub issue

Just found out about containers.

My use case is quite simple:

  • MAC for all sites I need to be logged in on all the time
  • TC for everything else (even if it’s a link found in a MAC tab)

On TC Preferences, I ticked Automatic Mode under General.

Under Isolation >> Multi-Account Containers >> chose Isolate Navigations in Permanent Containers whose Target Domain isn't MAC-"Always open in" assigned to that container. Problem here is that I need to Disable this just so I can save a new site in an existing MAC. If I don’t disable it, the new site opens in a TC.

For example:

  1. (The setting under Isolation (stated above) is enabled.) Twitter.com is pre-saved in a “Twitter MAC.”
  2. Open a new “Twitter MAC” tab, enter tweetdeck.twitter.com but this opens in a TC.
  3. Go back to TC Preferences and Disable the Isolation setting.
  4. Repeat step 2 and now tweetdeck.twitter.com opens in “Twitter MAC.”
  5. Click the MAC icon on browser and tick Always open in Twitter MAC (under Current Tab Tweetdeck) to save it.
  6. At this point, with the setting disabled, I want all sites except twitter.com and tweetdeck.twitter.com to open in a Temporary Container. Moving on with the example, we’re on tweetdeck.twitter.com. If I had a, say, Wikipedia link on this page and opened it in a new tab, that Wikipedia opens in “Twitter MAC,” which I don’t want, I want it in a TC. For that to happen I need to go back and enable the Isolation setting again.

How can I simplify this? Am I using the wrong add-ons/combo?

I open links in a new tab by Right click + T, I like this because it’s the fastest.

TIA.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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stoicallycommented, Dec 29, 2019

As u/okradonkey said, you can’t assign the same domain to multiple containers (yet, might one day be supported by MAC: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1171).

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firepaintingcommented, Dec 29, 2019

Thanks! Didn’t know about Alt+I. Will be looking into Containerise. Thanks so much for the add-on, I didn’t realize its value 😃 I’m using the right combo after all.

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